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Pierfrancesco Favino

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Pierfrancesco Favino

Pierfrancesco Favino

Actor & stage director

Born in Rome, he took acting classes at the National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome under the guidance of Italian actor and theater director Luca Ronconi. Pierfrancesco Favino promptly entered the spotlight for his roles in the feature films The Prince of Homburg by Marco Bellocchio (1997), The Last Kiss by Gabriele Muccino (2001), El Alamein – The Line of Fire by Enzo Monteleone (2002) and The Keys to the House by Gianni Amelio (2004).

His film career continued with such Italian hits as the crime thriller Romanzo Criminale by Michele Placido (2005), The Unknown Woman by Giuseppe Tornatore (2006), Saturn in Opposition by Ferzan Ozpetek (2007) and Come Undone by Silvio Soldini (2010). He has worked with other major Italian directors such as Giuliano Montaldo in The Entrepreneur (2011), Stefano Sollima in the thrillers A.C.A.B. – All Cops Are Bastards (2012) and Suburra (2015), Marco Tullio Giordana in Piazza Fontana (2012), Roberto Andò in The Confessions (2016), and again with Gabriele Muccino in Kiss Me Again (2010), There’s No Place Like Home (2018) and The Best Years (2020).

With Marco Bellocchio’s The Traitor, presented in competition at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, Pierfrancesco Favino gained unanimous international recognition thanks to his portrayal of repentant mafioso Masino Buscetta, winning the Silver Ribbon – the third in his career – and a David di Donatello Award for Best Actor. The film represented Italy for the 2020 Academy Awards. That same year, he played the role of Bettino Craxi in Gianni Amelio’s Hammamet, earning another Silver Ribbon and the Golden Globe for Best Actor. Also that year, Claudio Noce’s film Padrenostro played at the Venice Mostra, earning him the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. The year 2020 ended with All for One, One for All, the sequel to Giovanni Veronese’s Italian swashbuckler The King’s Musketeers.

Pierfrancesco Favino has also participated in many international productions, such as Spike Lee’s Miracle at St. Anna (2007), Andrew Adamson’s The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008), Ron Howard’s Angels & Demons (2009) and Rush (2013), Marc Forster’s World War Z (2013), Christine Carrière’s A Mother (2015), Roger Michell’s My Cousin Rachel (2017), Ben Lewin’s The Catcher Was a Spy (2018) and Amanda Sthers’ Promises (2021). He has also graced the small screen in some of Italy’s most popular television productions, such as Alberto Negrin’s Bartali: The Iron Man (2006), Bread and Freedom (2009) and Qualunque cosa succeda (2014), as well as Carlo Carlei’s Il générale Della Rovere (2011).

In theater, Pierfrancesco Favino has written, directed and acted in the plays “Servo per Due” and “La Controra.” In recent years, he appeared in the one-act play “Night Just Before the Forests.” These plays received two Maschera d’Oro awards, the highest Italian honor. He is also director of the Oltrarno School in Florence for actors and has been a Motion Picture Academy member since 2020.

Last year began with the success in Italy of the romantic comedy I Run to You by Riccardo Milani. The actor once again climbed the steps of the Cannes Festival Palais with Mario Martone’s film noir Nostalgia, presented in competition. He will soon be seen on the French screens in Andrea Di Stefano’s crime thriller The Last Night of Amore, presented at this year’s Reims Polar.

Filmography

  • 2023
    The Last Night of Amore (Andrea Di Stefano)
  • 2022
    The Hummingbird (Francesca Archibugi)
  • 2022
    Nostalgia (Mario Martone)
  • 2022
    Corro da Te (Riccardo Milani)
  • 2021
    Promises (Amanda Stehrs)
  • 2020
    Padrenostro (Claudio Noce)
  • 2020
    The Best Years (Gabriele Muccino)
  • 2020
    Hammamet (Gianno Amelio)
  • 2020
    Tutti per uno, uno per tutti (Giovanni Veronesi)
  • 2019
    The Traitor (Marco Bellocchio)
  • 2018
    The King's Musketeers (Giovanni Veronesi)
  • 2018
    There's No Place Like Home (Gabriele Muccino)
  • 2018
    The Catcher Was a Spy (Ben Lewin)
  • 2017
    Chi m'ha visto (Alessandro Pondi)
  • 2017
    My Cousin Rachel (Roger Michell)
  • 2017
    Femme et mari (Simone Godano)
  • 2016
    The Confessions (Roberto Ando)
  • 2015
    Suburra (Stefano Sollima)
  • 2015
    A Mother (Christine Carrière)
  • 2014
    Without Pity (Michelle Alhaique)
  • 2013
    Rush (Ron Howard)
  • 2013
    World War Z (Marc Forster)
  • 2012
    Piazza Fontana (Marco Tullio Giordana)
  • 2012
    A.C.A.B. : All Cops Are Bastards (Stefano Sollima)
  • 2012
    A Flat for Three (Carlo Verdone)
  • 2011
    The Entrepreneur (Giuliano Montaldo)
  • 2011
    The Perfect Life (Lucio Pellegrini)
  • 2010
    Kiss Me Again (Gabriele Muccino)
  • 2010
    Come Undone (Silvio Soldini)
  • 2010
    Unlikely Revolutionaries (Lucio Pellegrini)
  • 2009
    Angels & Demons (Row Howard)
  • 2008
    The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (Andrew Adamson)
  • 2008
    The Man Who Loves Maria (Sole Tognazzi)
  • 2007
    Saturn in Opposition (Ferzan Ozpetek)
  • 2007
    Miracle at St. Anna (Spike Lee)
  • 2006
    Night at the Museum (Shawn Levy)
  • 2006
    The Unknown Woman (Giuseppe Tornatore)
  • 2005
    Romanzo Criminale (Michele Placido)
  • 2005
    Amatemi (Renato De Maria)
  • 2005
    Sorry, You Can't Get Through! (Paolo Genovese & Luca Miniero)
  • 2004
    The Keys to the House (Gianni Amelio)
  • 2004
    Out Italian Husband (Ilaria Borrelli)
  • 2003
    Instructing the Heart (Giovanni Morricone)
  • 2003
    Past Perfect Maria (Sole Tognazzi)
  • 2002
    I Am Emma (Francesco Falaschi)
  • 2002
    El Alamein: The Line of Fire (Enzo Monteleone)
  • 2001
    Let's Have the Truth About Love (Francesco Apolloni)
  • 2001
    Da Zero a dieci (Luciano Ligabue)
  • 2001
    The Last Kiss (Gabriele Muccino)
  • 2000
    La Carbonara (Luigi Magni)
  • 1998
    La Comédie de Terracina (Nae Caranfil)
  • 1997
    Physical Jerks (Stefano Reali)
  • 1997
    The Prince of Homburg (Marco Bellocchio)
  • 1995
    Pugili (Lino Capolicchio)
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